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[Massimiliano Gubinelli <address@hidden>]

Hi,

 personally I write in the $$ style (e.g. in emails, of course I do not use LaTeX anymore seriously :)).

If you read carefully the stackexchange replys (especially those of some people involved in LaTeX3) you will see that there are arguments in favour of $, in particular its readability, e.g.

```

 $a$ is better-to-read, not speaking about $f(x)=(x+1)/2$ and $g(x)=(x-1)^{1+x}$ are $(n+1)$-free compared to \(f(x)=(x+1)/2\) and \(g(x)=(x-1)^{1+x}\)$ are \((n+1)\)-free. Too many (s and {s is simply too many. Dollar is well-recognizable in the code and to be honest, I have never got into the problem of not-knowing whether I'm in or out of $...$

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Since the LaTeX exported by TeXmacs is syntactically correct (hopefully) there should be no ambiguity problem, not weird redefinitions of $$.  Other arguments listed there are of the kind that it is easier for tools to parse the \( \) syntax, but again this does not seem to be a concern to us. 

I do not think we need to focus on these LaTeX details. The idea should be to go away of such a mess...

Best

Max

On 13. Apr 2021, at 19:19, TeXmacs <address@hidden> wrote:

On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 06:39:27PM +0200, Frank wrote:

I wonder whether it is possible to force TeXmacs to use \( ... \) for inline math formulae instead of $ ... $ in LaTeX conversion? It is the ones for LaTeX: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/513

If it is not currently supported, I will report a bug.

Both are correct and $ is more readable, so this is not a bug, but a feature.

Best wishes, --Joris